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Patrick Hennessy, Founder of Unhinged NY, gives his weekly rundown of all the top talking points in sports... Including some special guests. Powered by Unhinged Media.
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A podcast by a doctor telling you all the dark and dirty secrets of my profession and how to understand what docs say and use it to become wiser and healthier! I separate myth from truth so you can be a better advocate for yourself.Remember the three keys to health: eat well, exercise, and stay away from doctors!
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Therapists Unhinged explores mental health and personal growth through relatable, light-hearted conversations led by the team at Bella Mental Health. Designed to break the stigma around therapy, each episode dives into topics like anxiety, healing alternatives, and emotional wellbeing, without the clinical jargon. You can expect a balance of professional insight and real-life experience. This show invites you to feel seen, supported, and empowered in your own journey.
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Send us a text In this candid and deeply relatable episode, the hosts of Therapists Unhinged step into the emotional maze of the holiday season and the complicated realities of going “home.” With humor, honesty, and lived experience, they explore why returning to family can feel less like comfort and more like stepping back into old patterns, roles…
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Antibiotics are one of the most impactful medical discoveries in the past century. Along with sanitation and sterile technique, antibiotics have led to a dramatic increase in life expectancy. However, now we have moved down a different road. We are over-using antibiotics, killing our gut bacteria, causing resistance leading to superbugs that can't …
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Drug companies, the media, physician groups, and patient advocacy groups, month others, have convinced the American public that the key to health is more testing, more doctor visits, more drugs, more procedures. We have invented more diseases and diagnoses the past decade, scared more patients into falling prey to "necessary and lifesaving" interve…
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Today we talk about the impact of drug advertisement on both patient and physician decision making. These companies know that a huge investment in ads will result in more prescriptions, one of many ways Big Pharma infiltrates so many aspects of the medical industrial complex.Por Andy
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Send us a text In this heartfelt episode of Therapists Unhinged, we dive into the pressures, expectations, and emotional rollercoaster of the holiday season. With humor, honesty, and a touch of rebellion, they introduce the concept of “No-vember”—a month dedicated to reclaiming peace by saying no to unnecessary stress and unrealistic expectations. …
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With the opioid crisis looming on the horizon always, the question comes as to how to treat pain. So many medicines have side effects an are overall dangerous. Some work about as much as placebo. We'll talk about medicines, but then discuss better ways to deal with pain, from mindfulness to exercises to other non-medical modalities. Pain is real, b…
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Killing the Myth of Work-Life Balance: Building Equilibrium, Systems, and Sustainable Growth
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Send us a text In this empowering episode of Therapists Unhinged, we welcome Dr. Kathryn Rudloff Executive Director of weVENTURE Women’s Business Center, to explore the realities of entrepreneurship, burnout, and the myth of work-life balance. Dr. Rudloff brings her experience in supporting women business owners to discuss how boundaries, systems, …
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We have always known about basic cancer screening tests, like mammography and colonoscopy. But we have expanded the universe of cancer screening, relying on scans, blood tests, and genetic testing. As we screen more, we find more, we treat more, but are we saving lives? Much of the screening we do has not been shown to save as many lives as adverti…
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Many books and studies have pointed to the fact that we are a nation swimming in mental health diagnoses and drugs. The DSM--the bible of mental health diagnoses--has exploded the numbers of mental health sicknesses you may have, and for every sickness there is a drug. Both the DSM and the American College of Psychiatry are heavily funded by the dr…
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The American Heart Association (AHA) has devised new blood pressure guidelines. In this iteration, the AHA tell us that any blood pressure over 120 is dangerous and must be treated, with pressures over 180 requiring immediate hospitalization. There is no age cut off, and no accounting for individual variability. That the AHA is highly dependent on …
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Send us a text How To Respond When Someone Discloses Suicidal Thoughts In this deeply resonant episode of Therapists Unhinged, Tiffanie Trudeau, LMHC from Connected Thriving Counseling and Wellness joins the show during Suicide Prevention Month to discuss one of the most misunderstood and important topics in mental health. Tiffanie shares her exper…
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New studies show that as we are drugging our senior more, they are falling more and dying more from their falls. We may think that dramatically lowering blood pressure and sugars, fixing cholesterol with statins, using blood thinners to prevent stroke, and medicating sadness are beneficial, but the pile of drugs we're tossing into elderly bodies to…
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Send us a text An Apology Without Change is Manipulation In this raw and relatable episode, the Therapists Unhinged hosts, Robin and Nella, get real about relationships and emotional intelligence (or the lack thereof). They share personal stories and professional insights on navigating the complexities of modern dating, divorce, and the patterns we…
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Send us a text Why Self-Care ISN'T Optional, It’s NECESSARY In this honest and unfiltered episode of Therapists Unhinged, co-hosts Nella and TJ take the mic without Dr. Robin and dive deep into what self-care actually means. They call out how society has glamorized and twisted self-care into wine nights and massages while ignoring the deeper emotio…
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Send us a text On this episode of Therapists Unhinged, Nella, Dr. Robin, and TJ return from summer break with an honest and timely conversation about the realities of back-to-school season. With Dr. Robin’s decades of teaching experience and Nella’s raw parenting perspective, they explore how school success starts at home, what support teachers act…
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In Return to Healing we lay out a very simple fix to the medical mess we are in. We spend the first half the book explaining why it is a mess, and then the second half talking about who is profiting from the mess. Then we give the fix. It's really very easy to repair a system that is simply off the tracks. We lay it out simply. This is one you don'…
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Send us a text We Are Human Before We’re Therapists In this episode of Therapists Unhinged, Nella, Dr. Robin, and TJ unpack what it means to be therapists who also happen to be human. From setting personal boundaries to dodging therapy questions at family barbecues, the hosts candidly share the very real, very human side of their professional lives…
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Alan and Andy talk about how medical school does not prepare students to be whole-person doctors, focused on numbers and multiple choice answers and slices of the body. William Osler devised an ideal medical school at Hopkins before the Flexner Revolt took it down. In the Osler model students work with community primary care doctors from day one an…
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Send us a text For today’s episode, TJ, Nella, and Dr. Robin dive deep into one of the most emotionally charged life transitions: divorce. But this isn’t just about paperwork or custody. It’s about identity, healing, and the children caught in between. The hosts share hard-earned insights from personal experience and years of therapy practice, guid…
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As two primary care doctors with a collective 75 years of experience, we understand the benefits of having a primary care doctor who develops strong relationships built on trust, who customizes care to each patient, who takes a patient-centric and whole-person view of care, and who is critical thinker looking beyond the protocols and drug-company d…
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How Adult Friendships Change: Boundaries, Loyalty & Seasons of Life | Therapists Unhinged Ep. 14
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Send us a text Friendships CHANGE… But THIS Is How You Protect Your Peace This week on Therapists Unhinged, we’re getting raw, real, and unfiltered about one of life’s toughest topics: friendships and boundaries. Dr. Robin, TJ, and Nella get vulnerable about: ✔ What healthy friendships actually look like (spoiler: it’s not the front-door friends) ✔…
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We look at the role of primary care in our health care system and discuss why it is the crucial ingredient to save lives, lower cost, and help people feel better and be healthier. As we gravitate toward a technician-run specialized system that rewards expensive drugs, tests, and procedures rather than whole-person holistic care, we are devaluing pr…
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There is no question that primary care is dying in this country, much to the detriment of our entire healthcare system and every person who utilizes it. We talk about an article called The Eulogy for Primary Care that talks about why it's dying and missed opportunities. Not only are no medical students entering the field, but those in it are burnin…
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How Cheerleading Became Her Lifeline Through Mental Health Battles | Therapists Unhinged Ep. 13
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Send us a text She’s Only 18... But What She Says About Mental Health Will Leave You Speechless This week, the Therapists Unhinged crew gets real with a powerful new voice: 18-year-old Aniah, recent graduate, elite all-star cheerleader, and daughter of co-host Nella. In this raw and emotional conversation, Aniah opens up about: How cheerleading sav…
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Send us a text In this raw and hilarious episode, the Therapists Unhinged crew sits down with longtime educator and military veteran Rennie Ashcraft to unpack what’s really happening inside today's classrooms. From navigating the needs of neurodivergent and underachieving gifted students to confronting life-or-death mental health moments, Rennie pu…
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Send us a text In this episode of Therapists Unhinged, we had the incredible opportunity to chat with JeannieFit, a dynamic hip hop instructor and the founder of myHipHopFit. Jeannie shared her inspiring journey from her childhood in Colombia, where she faced language barriers and body image issues, to becoming a successful fitness entrepreneur ded…
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We know that at the hospital medical students, residents, and hospitalists dive into a Flexnerian orgy of tests, treatments, and more tests. Is this helpful? We'll go back in time and look at Osler's dream at Hopkins before it became the poster child for Flexnerian medicine.Por Andy
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Send us a text In this episode of Therapists Unhinged, we tackle the intricate dynamics of relationships and the impact of our past experiences on our present interactions. We kick off the conversation by acknowledging that no partner will fulfill 100% of our needs, and we often project our unmet childhood needs onto our relationships. Throughout t…
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People are losing weight on the new drugs, but at what cost? First there is the financial cost: we're paying $35 billion a year for these drugs, and don't be fooled, all of us are paying. While insurance pays nothing for nutrition or exercise, it gladly pays for this. And these drugs are untested long term, with some horrific potential side effects…
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How to Survive Cultural Stigma Around Mental Health (A Veteran’s Story) | Therapists Unhinged Ep.9
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Send us a text In this episode of Therapists Unhinged, we had the incredible opportunity to sit down with our second guest, Alexa, a 52-year-old Puerto Rican veteran who shared her powerful journey through mental health and personal transformation. From the outset, Alexa opened up about her struggles with therapy and medication, emphasizing that fi…
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Alan and Andy discuss specialty care and its inherent dangers. We tell about specific patient examples, why excessive specialization seems appealing but results in over-testing and over-treatment, and how we can instantly change policy to mitigate the damage from specialization. Ultimately specialists are paid more to convince people they are sick …
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Send us a text In this episode of Therapists Unhinged, we dive into the concept of manifesting with action, building on our previous discussions about finances, mental health, and mindset. We explore the popular trend of manifesting, which often involves positive affirmations, vision boards, and rituals like lighting candles. While these practices …
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Why Financial Success DOESN'T Equal Mental Health | Shocking Truth | Therapists Unhinged Ep. 7
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Send us a text In this episode of Therapists Unhinged, we welcome our very first guest, Jeremy Lindquist, owner and financial advisor at Skypeak Financial. Our conversation delves into the profound connection between finances and mental health, a topic that resonates with everyone. Jeremy shares his insights on how today's luxuries can quickly tran…
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Send us a text In this episode of "Therapists Unhinged", we dive deep into the topic of entitlement mentality and its implications on various aspects of life, including relationships, the workplace, and generational dynamics. We explore the question of whether we are raising narcissistic individuals or if entitlement stems from unmet needs. Our dis…
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Send us a text In this episode of "Therapists Unhinged", we dive deep into the unique struggles and challenges that today's teenagers face, especially in the context of social media and its impact on their self-image and mental health. We discuss how teens are navigating a world vastly different from the one we grew up in, highlighting the pressure…
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Send us a text In this episode of Therapists Unhinged, we dive deep into the topic of imposter syndrome, exploring its prevalence across various professions, particularly in the field of therapy. We discuss how many of us, including therapists, often feel like we are "faking it" and question our abilities and successes. We emphasize the importance …
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Send us a text In this episode of Therapist Unhinged, we dive deep into the concept of "coddling culture" and its impact on today's youth. We discuss how many young adults, despite being tech-savvy and capable in certain areas, struggle with basic life skills such as making appointments or handling everyday tasks. This disconnect raises questions a…
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Alan Roth and Andy Lazris discuss screening for prostate cancer to explain how screening can be less beneficial, and more dangerous, than advertised. Just finding it early doesn't mean you've done yourself a service.Por Andy
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Send us a text In this episode, we officially kick off our podcast by diving into the topic of resilience. We explore what resilience means, emphasizing the idea of "bouncing back" from life's challenges, whether they be personal struggles like divorce or financial trauma. Our discussion highlights the importance of self-awareness and recognizing o…
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Send us a text In this inaugural episode of Therapist Unhinged, we dive deep into the often misunderstood world of therapy. I'm Nella, the owner of Bellarmine Health Services, and I'm joined by my incredible co-hosts, Miss TJ Johnson and Dr. Robin McCormick. Together, we aim to create a space that is raw, real, and relatable, breaking down the stig…
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The Drug Industry was front and center in the creation of our health care industry. The reforms that created modern healthcare in 1911 and beyond were predicated on developing a research infrastructure in medical schools and in the medical community to generate money for industry. Nothing really has changed. Now the drug companies have control over…
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In our book, A Return to Healing, we dissect what is wrong with our health care system, and show how you as a patient can better advocate for your own health in a system that often deceives you for profit. But too, we want to fix the system and we explore a feasible solution at the end of the book, one that is simple to achieve and one that would l…
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In the show Apple Cider Vinegar, the writers create a binary: the good and all-knowing doctors vs the charlatan nutrition gurus. The gap is so wide between the two approaches that the reader is left thinking that in cancer, as in all things medical, doctors always have your best interest in mind and if they thought you should change your diet they'…
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How "Us vs Them" thinking is used to defend the medical system: David Frum and his Atlantic Article.
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Whether it is in attacking Kennedy, or in refusing to acknowledge what is dysfunctional about Medicare, Democrats use us vs them binary thinking to defend the medical system. By finding easy targets that seem inane, or by inventing those targets by twisting the truth, the defenders of our horrific medical system prop themselves up by posing as the …
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We all believe that cholesterol is so bad that we better measure it regularly and lower it by drugs. Just ask your cardiologist: Got to get that LDL cholesterol below 70 or catastrophe will ensue! But as we explain, this is a myth that germinated back in the 1950's and has been perpetuated and normalized over time. Virtually all doctors believe in …
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The statistics bounce around about COVID even as the virus wanes and becomes just another recurrent cold. But the religious fanaticism of the COVID faithful, the rituals, the restrictions, those have not disappeared. In my world of geriatrics and long term care, my patients are still being made to suffer and even killed by those doctors and policy …
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From masks to one -way aisles to PPE to 20-second hand washing and 6-foot separation, COVID has demonstrated the religiosity of health care more than any singular event in my lifetime. The Gospel of Infectious Disease, which includes public health, is a frightening one; these doctors and their agents have consistently been on the wrong side of scie…
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In my book The Great Stupidity, which chronicles the journey of a naive and gullible French boy who seeks to find a cure for the Black Plague and to speak with the Great Frenchie in Paris who promises to provide the scientific means of stopping the plague, from waving ones hands to other absurd but accepted rituals, I seek to show how dangerous it …
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Prostate cancer helps us understand the religion of health care through a very unique lens. For any religion to be effective it must instill fear into its adherents, have priests who offer a means of alleviating that fear, and then provide appealing but ultimately deceptive techniques to "cure" someone that seems to be sensible and effective but wh…
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Health Care has taken the shape of a religious theocracy in this country, with Trillions spent for the allure of salvation and eternal life, and a medical industrial complex mimicking the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages driving people down dangerous roads of myth and dogma to feed the beast. Medical priests, aka doctors, drive the faith and conv…
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